African Textiles ‘Show & Tell’ at Blythe House
The Textile Society Collector’s Group met Helen Wolfe and Chris Spring at Blythe House to view West African textiles from The British Museum collection.
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Japanese Boro Textile Exhibition at Somerset House, London
From 2 – 26 April 2014 the East wing galleries at Somerset House, London will host ‘Boro: Threads of Life’, an exhibition of 40 historic layered indigo fabrics collected by antiquarians Gordon Reece and Philippe Boudin over six years.
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Carpets of the East in Paintings from the West
A concise exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 11 March – 29 June displays three mid 17th century rugs and three Dutch paintings of the same age that depict the same type of carpets.
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North American Indian Exhibition, Musée du quai Branly, Paris
The exhibition ‘Indiens de Plaines’ at the Musée du quai Branly, Paris, from 8th April – 20th July 2014 is an investigation into the Plains Indians of North America, their iconography, the continuum of their artistic expression and their place in the changing cultural imagination.
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Carpet Diem 2014 – Classical Chinese Carpets
On Sunday 13 April 2014, the Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Maximilianstraße 42, Munich will host ‘Carpet Diem 2014’, a keynote lecture by leading collector and expert on Chinese and East Turkestan weaving Hans König
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Greek Dress at the Hellenic Centre, London
Marylebone, in Central London, might seem an unlikely place for an exhibition of Greek costume, but it is the home of the Hellenic Centre, a focus for philhellenes and London’s Greek community. There could be found a rare opportunity to see an impressive range of Greek dress outside its native land.
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Chicken Cup sells at Sotheby’s for $36 million
A tiny porcelain Chicken cup from the Ming dynasty has set a new record at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, fetching $36m (£21.5m) at auction. Those gathered in the auction house broke into a round of applause as the hammer fell on the sale.
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Carpet collecting at the V&A in the late 19th century
‘Singular Perfection at South Kensington: Collecting ‘Persian Carpets’ for the V&A, 1873-1893’ was the topic of a seminar presented at the Wallace Collection, London by Moya Carey, IHF Curator for the Iranian Collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum, on 31 March 2014.
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MAK, Vienna to reopen permanent carpet gallery in April 2014
Classical Egyptian, Persian, Turkish and Indian carpets are highlights of the new presentation of one of the world’s best-known and most valuable collections; soon to be housed in a purpose built ‘spatial concept’ designed by Michael Embacher.
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Canopies for the Goddess at Museum Rietberg, Zurich, until 14 April 2014
Twenty-seven temple cloths from Gujarat are on show in a special exhibition, ‘Canopies for the Goddess’, at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich Until 14 April 2014.
